Ken Oliver’s Color Burst Watercolors are a great way to add vibrant color to any project. While crafting with them recently, I picked up the wrong spray bottle. Instead of giving the page a spritz of water, I accidentally sprayed the page with rubbing alcohol! After a brief moment of panic, I realized that it created a lovely speckled page of color because the rubbing alcohol evaporates without spreading the color very far. And voila— I developed a new technique for powdered watercolor that would never have been discovered if I labeled my bottles correctly!

Quick and Crafty Color Burst Cards Instructions:

Give a quick puff of Ken Oliver’s Color Bursts to your watercolor page. Note: You will have a hard time seeing the color on the page, but it will show up vibrantly when spritzed, so don’t worry and don’t overdo it with the powder!

For this project, I went with cool tones and used Indigo, Ultramarine Blue, Merlot, and Violet to achieve the pattern seen.

Spray entire page with a very light coat of rubbing alcohol. The colors should pop out nicely. If there are any holes you would like to fill, just puff a little more Color Bursts onto the page.

Trim a thin strip of watercolor paper for the bottom of your card. Attach Tim Holtz Metal Word Band with brads and adhere to the bottom of the card.

Crumple white seam binding ribbon, spray with Dylusions Ink Spray in Crushed Grape and allow to dry completely. If spray ink is too dark or opaque, rinse some of the ink out with water. Note: Wear gloves or you will have very purple hands!

Allow ribbon to dry completely, then tie to the left-hand side of card.

Love using 1/4″ double-sided tape when making cards, scrapbooking or making my own albums. Lay a strip of tape down. Then press beedz, gold leaf, foils or glitter on it. It’s a wonderful glitzy embellishment that can frame cards, special places in scrapbooks or just to jazz things up.

Between my mixed media pieces and my scrapbooking I am mired in adhesives. Attaching beautiful embellishments to both, lots of washi tape and glitter–what ever found art I can add. Loved the article, need to get down and dirty and try to make it. Great ideas.

I use the double sided tape for everything. Makes for a great bond and better looking projects. I do lots of mixed media, scrapbooking and card making which needs a variety of adhesives. Thank you for the opportunity to win such a great collection.

Being a avid crafter/ artist full time, this is a great giveaway. I make greeting cards and use some of my own fabric designs as well. Always looking to try new supplies for different effects. I have yet to use washi tape but need to do that soon!

I am a multi media artist with over 35 years in the creating something beautiful industry. ;-)

I am a full time multi media artist with over 35 years in the creating something pretty industry! ;-)
I use many different tools and supplies. From Pottery, surface design, paintings to greeting cards.
Have not tried to washi tape yet! Have to try them! I pinned photo above to pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/pin/70228075420504596/

Wow, what a great assortment of adhesives–a necessity if I want to make more quick cards–I hate messing with those teeny two sided tape dispensers that don’t always work, so I ♥ the E-Z Runner Grand! Thanks for the chance to win it.https://www.pinterest.com/pin/494973815281643549/

I’m so sorry. Apparently this isn’t my night! Let me try that all again fresh. I pinned the top picture to my Inspiration album. Not only would I like to try the Ken Oliver Colour Bursts, but I got a great stamp making idea from that post too. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/221872719123189340/

ESPECIALLY in card making, the right adhesive is #1. It can make the difference between a professional creation and one that really misses what you might want to express! \
Bless you for this opportunity!

I love this article because the colors are soft yet bright. I use lots of adhesives when creating my mix media projects. I have a variety of them due to the different weights of the papers I use and objects that are “glued” together. I am always eager to learn more about the adhesives so I can better attach my goodies together.

I love your alcohol spray “accident” thanks for sharing. I love using wide and thin strips or dots of adhesive not only to attach my card pieces but to add interest by using various widths to add either glitter or flock or anything else I can think of to the top of my card. I have even tried a tartan effect by Criss crossing them. So cool.

Shared on FB. Time to play!
Where would we be without all the wonderful adhesives we use in our art?!?
Adhesive sheets are great for adhering intricate cutouts, and the dots STICK on so many dimensional objects very well.

I can not make cards without my adhesives. Nor can I create my muted media without a tape runner, and or dots. I have got to try this technique with my Color Burst. Thanks for the chance to win these awesome adhesives.

Ken Oliver’s Color Burst Watercolors are a great way to add vibrant color to any project. While crafting with them recently, I picked up the wrong spray bottle. Instead of giving the page a spritz of water, I accidentally sprayed the page with rubbing alcohol! After a brief moment of panic, I realized that it created a lovely speckled page of color because the rubbing alcohol evaporates without spreading the color very far. And voila— I developed a new technique for powdered watercolor that would never have been discovered if I labeled my bottles correctly!

Quick and Crafty Color Burst Cards Instructions:

Give a quick puff of Ken Oliver’s Color Bursts to your watercolor page. Note: You will have a hard time seeing the color on the page, but it will show up vibrantly when spritzed, so don’t worry and don’t overdo it with the powder!

For this project, I went with cool tones and used Indigo, Ultramarine Blue, Merlot, and Violet to achieve the pattern seen.

Spray entire page with a very light coat of rubbing alcohol. The colors should pop out nicely. If there are any holes you would like to fill, just puff a little more Color Bursts onto the page.

Trim a thin strip of watercolor paper for the bottom of your card. Attach Tim Holtz Metal Word Band with brads and adhere to the bottom of the card.

Crumple white seam binding ribbon, spray with Dylusions Ink Spray in Crushed Grape and allow to dry completely. If spray ink is too dark or opaque, rinse some of the ink out with water. Note: Wear gloves or you will have very purple hands!

Allow ribbon to dry completely, then tie to the left-hand side of card.